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Post by Dod Watt on Oct 6, 2012 8:09:15 GMT
This topic could mean quite a few things, it could be that you are manipulating your opponents body with your own alignment, you could be speaking about your own movements and striving to get them perfect, even the positioning for launching an attack, that is but 3 methods of which the title can be used.
So lets discuss this, open it up, look at all the avenues and break them down, explain the usage of our body in all the aspects that allows us to defend, attack, avoid, approach, having the right alignment helps us in all of these, lets analyse it, explain it and find the best ways to apply and use it!!!!
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Post by malk103 on Oct 6, 2012 12:25:40 GMT
I was running through the Hikite hand when performing blocks the other week, demonstrating how pulling the attacker in slightly is all you need sometimes to put them off balance. Also a lot of the 2 man Kumite drills can be seen by some as not being practical but when you pick up on things like balance it can change the drills to having key principles.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2012 13:09:02 GMT
I agree with Mal that grabbing limbs and pulling opponent in and off balance with your hikite hand gives you an advantage. I accompany that with a side step as well in order to create some distance and aid momentum.
In kumite or in self defence situation I always try to move to their off side. eg, if they present with their right arm and right leg leading in then I would side step to my left, their right and back side is then exposed to my counter.
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Post by jimlukelkc on Oct 6, 2012 14:20:23 GMT
It can apply to the insertion of stance too, as in sliding the front foot of kokutsu dachi between your opponents feet, then stepping across into zenkutsu dachi to unbalance/disrupt his posture? This works of course equally well with kiba dachi etc. Tai sabaki and Ma-ai are often misinterpreted I feel. Ma-ai should be the control of the distance between you and your opponent and the use you make of that space by body alignment . Rather than creating space we should think of closing down the space for control.
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Post by Paul Bedard on Oct 6, 2012 18:14:22 GMT
How about a simple thing like a quick jab to jodan level to get there guard up, then attacking low like a leg sweep, while their focus is high. Now the focus is to maintain balance & good time time to strike high again.. Or
How about joint manipulation, for example the elbow & knees are hinge joints & can only properly bend one way. If we can move the back of the hand & the elbow in opposite directions, this can cause much discomfort to our opponent..
Paul B
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Post by Dod Watt on Oct 7, 2012 0:20:33 GMT
If we want to use alignment as manipulation we first have to look at our posture relating to our stance, because having a good stance gives us the stability to deliver a good technique and to have a good technique we need to have the proper body alignment for transferring the maximum force, sometimes body alignment can be misconstrued as the centre line of our body, but that is wrong, the alignment of our body sometimes exceeds the centre point, look at some of our katas and see, we have to go out with our own bodies centre line ( i.e. our own bodies centre ) to achieve body alignment to execute a given technique !!
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Post by Bob Davis on Oct 7, 2012 11:59:50 GMT
Centre should be your centre of gravity at any given time, this can be way off the centre line of your body but to my understanding you should maintain (or at least be in control of your) balance at all times. I try to teach my students from an early stage that a big part of karate is being in control of you CofG and thus your balance (in fact I suspect they get fed up of hearing it . You achieve this by correct alignment of all the component parts to give you balance, even if that alignement is a constantly changing one (i.e. movement should always be under control at all stages rather than the random "throw your body around and then catch you balance again at the end" that is the more common form of untrained human movement) , the flip side is that you gain big advantage by taking your opponents balance which is done by breaking their alignment.
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Post by Dod Watt on Oct 7, 2012 16:07:47 GMT
Well said Bob!
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Post by nathanso on Oct 8, 2012 5:06:54 GMT
Centre should be your centre of gravity at any given time, this can be way off the centre line of your body but to my understanding you should maintain (or at least be in control of your) balance at all times. I try to teach my students from an early stage that a big part of karate is being in control of you CofG and thus your balance . I would modify this to say that as a beginner, you want to control your balance. As an advanced practitioner, you want to control your imbalance. A simple example is the difference between doing a stationary front kick, where you "keep your balance"0 at all times, and driving your hips past your support leg as you do a maigeri.
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